American Standard | Skating the Spectrum | apPROpriate PROnouns | Gender and Sexuality in the East | Going Native |
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Cartoon character that was the centerpiece of a campaign to encourage women into the workforce during World War 2 (and back to the homes after men returned home)
Who is Rosie the Riveter
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/rosie-the-riveter |
A strictly biological division between male and female.
What is Sex
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/sex?authuser=6 |
The correct and polite way to refer to a male identifying individual
What is He/Him/His
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What is the female representation in Taoism. Characterized as soft, yielding, receptive, passive, reflective, and tranquil.
What is the Yin
https://asiasociety.org/education/women-traditional-china |
Term used in Navajo Native American culture for when an individual of one gender displays traits associated with the other
What is the Two-Spirit
https://www.willsworld.org/twospiritslide/slide-05.html |
The familial structure of a heterosexual mother, father and biological child. It became very idealized in the 50's with the rise of the suburbs and family sitcoms and was even called the "building block of American social structure".
What is the Nuclear Family
https://www.britannica.com/topic/nuclear-family |
A socially constructed and enforced view of male and female ideas.
What is Gender
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/gender?authuser=6 |
The correct and polite way to refer to a female identifying individual
What is She/Her/Hers
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The semi sacred "third gender" in South Asian culture.
What is the Hijra
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/examples-beyond-binaries?authuser=6 |
Term used to describe a man who does work associated with women, has a homosexual relationship and takes part in spiritual ceremonies.
What is a Berdache
https://www.healthyplace.com/gender/inside-intersexuality/a-native-american-perspective-on-the-theory-of-gender-continuum-by-drk#:~:text=Among%20Native%20Americans%2C%20the%20role%20of%20third%2C%20fourth%2C,in%20the%20gender%20role%2C%20which%20fit%20them%20best. |
A familial unit where one or both parents have children from previous marriages. Became more prevalent in the 80's as American divorce rates skyrocketed.
What is the Blended Family
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/1-the-american-family-today/ |
Referring to an individual who does not identify with the sex assigned at birth and instead views themselves as the other sex.
What is Transgender
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/sex?authuser=6 |
The correct and polite way to refer to a gender non conforming individual
What is they/them/theirs
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The rule in china that limits the amount of children a family can have, due to their ability to carry on the family name, more male children are kept
What is the Two Child Policy
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/china-s-two-child-policy |
A tribe that was matriarchal and lead by a "clan mother"
Who are the Haudenosaunee
Thomas, Katsithawi. "Gender Roles among the Iroquois". |
The term used to describe a man in American Society who's "job" it was to provide money for the family while his wife maintained the home.
What is the Breadwinner Model
Fagan, Colette (March 2001). "Restructuring gender relations and employment: the decline of the male breadwinner (review)". Work, Employment & Society. Cambridge Journals. 15 (1): 195–212. doi:10.1017/S0950017001230104. JSTOR 23747792. |
Referring to someone who identifies with the sex assigned at birth.
What is Cisgender
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/sex?authuser=6 |
The correct process for figuring out what to do if one isn't sure about another's pronouns of choice
What is just asking or using a general they/them
Interview with Rio Hopper of the Strikers Women Center |
Which Asian country used to be more open to homosexuality, with aristocrats having male and female concubines, even writing classical love ballads about homosexual relationships before the introduction of Confucianism
What is Japan?
https://academichelp.net/samples/academics/essays/expository/gender-roles-in-japan.html |
The Cree term for a male identifying female, translated as "woman accepted as a man" or more literally "someone who fights everyone to prove they are the toughest"
What is înahpîkasoht
Vowel, Chelsea (2016). "All My Queer Relations - Language, Culture, and Two-Spirit Identity". Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Highwater Press. ISBN 978-1553796800. |
What is the average marrying age in the United States
What is 26 for women and 28 for men
https://www.businessinsider.com/average-marriage-age-united-states-2019-2 |
Referring to someone who does not identify with male or female sex or gender ideas. this can be a fluid switch between the two, not being either, or anything in between
What is Non-Binary
https://sites.google.com/aims.edu/sex-gender/sex?authuser=6 |
Binary bathrooms, using "normal" and "cisgender" interchangeably, and making assumptions about dating life are all examples of
What are Transphobic Microaggressions
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/7-microaggressions-trans-people-face-in-health-and-mental-healthcare-settings/ |
Which Asian country used to have radical gender equality, even allowing women to freely get divorced dating back to the 1500's before European settlers were stunned at women's rights and colonialism led to a far more catholic conservative country today
What is the Philippines
http://cgacadthephilippines.weebly.com/blog/gender-roles-in-the-philippines |
What 1970 Western film featured a Two Spirit character, a homosexual man who dressed in attire of women. He extends an offer of hospitality to the protagonist and in a despite stereotypes of the time, the cowboy is flattered by the offer.
What is Little Big Man
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Big_Man_(film) |